en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanners_Live_in_Vain
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convicted criminals
The story does not limit habermans to convicted criminals. It explicitly says habermans were "criminals or heretics," so this description is too narrow.
Full reasoning
In Smith's story, habermans are not described solely as convicted criminals. The text explicitly states: "Habermans were criminals or heretics, and Scanners were gentlemen-volunteers". That directly contradicts the article's narrower wording, which presents habermans only as convicted criminals.
Because the article is summarizing an in-universe social category, replacing a broader category ("criminals or heretics") with a narrower one ("convicted criminals") changes the underlying fact of the story world.
1 source
- Scanners Live in Vain | Project Gutenberg
Habermans were criminals or heretics, and Scanners were gentlemen-volunteers, but they were all in the same fix...